app-text/poppler-0.3.0 installs a pkgconfig file called 'poppler-splash.pc' Some software I'm trying to package needs to use this. However, this .pc file explicitly includes a dependency to poppler-0.3.0, which does not exist as a .pc file (i.e. it tries to find poppler-0.3.0.pc, not poppler.pc [which does exist]). Removing the explicit dependency on the version makes things work fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. poppler-splash.pc has "Requires: poppler-0.3.0" (default) 2. # pkg-config --cflags --libs poppler-splash Package poppler-0.3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler-0.3.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'poppler-0.3.0', required by 'poppler-splash', not found 3. Change popper-splash.pc to "Requires: poppler" 4. # pkg-config --cflags --libs poppler-splash -I/usr/include/poppler -lpoppler Expected Results: pkgconfig should not fail Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -finline-functions -funit-at-a-time -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -finline-functions -funit-at-a-time -ftracer" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/armando/Projects/GENTOO/gentoo-x86" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cscope cups directfb emboss encode esd fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnustep gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jack jikes jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad mcal mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nptl odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres python quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl spell sse ssl tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Adding printing herd to CC, as that herd is in poppler metadata.xml.
maybe it just requires a newer pkgconfig version?
No, the Requires line in poppler-splash.pc is definitely wrong. Right now it is: "Requires: poppler-0.3.0" ... this makes it look for /usr/lib/pkgconfig/poppler-0.3.0.pc which does not exist. The line needs to be one of: Requires: poppler Requires: poppler = 0.3.0 Requires: poppler >= 0.3.0 However, doing a quick ./configure in poppler-0.3.0 sources: # grep Requires *.pc poppler-cairo.pc:Requires: poppler-0.3.0 cairo >= 0.3 poppler-glib.pc:Requires: gobject-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 poppler-splash.pc:Requires: poppler-0.3.0 ... so since both -cairo.pc and -splash.pc explicitly request poppler-0.3.0 that means that a poppler-0.3.0.pc needs to exist, which the sources do not create (or install): # ls -1 *.pc poppler-cairo.pc poppler-glib.pc poppler-qt.pc poppler-splash.pc poppler.pc ... adding the version to the file name would seem to make it act more like other files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Either way, this misconfiguration is blocking some software I'm trying to get into the tree.
Definitely was a bug: armando@asuka ~/Projects/poppler-0.3.3 $ grep Requires *.pc poppler-cairo.pc:Requires: poppler = 0.3.3 cairo >= 0.5 poppler-glib.pc:Requires: poppler = 0.3.3 gobject-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 poppler-qt.pc:Requires: poppler = 0.3.3 poppler-splash.pc:Requires: poppler = 0.3.3 ... so things seemed fixed in 0.3.3. Maybe stabilization of this package should be expediated? (Hrm, ChangeLog says it was added 6/27, so maybe not....)
so not yet ;) you can still depend on that version -> fixed
